Why
did Fed Prosecutor of Clinton, Michael
Chertoff pop up to
defend a small potatoes Egyptian doctor accused of funneling money to
Al-Qaeda? Was he working on blocking terror financing at the same
time?In
August 2008, at a public forum, Mr. Chertoff answered my questions
about this issue by confirming
his relationship to the Doctor, in
front of a small audience of a hundred people or so, but
saying "well, this is what happens with the Internet", implying this
was a crazy Internet conspiracy theory. He smiled, probably
knowing he would be believed without question by 99% of the people in
that room.
Originally, as you will see below, these matters were subject of an FBI and an ATF investigation, including a
'sting' operation with participants caught on tape, with the
participation by a Congressman who was made aware of the illegal
weapons deals, and the topic was covered in detail by the "Dateline NBC" television
show, which interviewed many of the participants. Now the story
was covered and maintained by a former NJ Police Officer, listed
below. Mr. Chertoff was not then a subject to these
news stories about the case. My conclusion is that hard
mainstream news is like a gallon of milk (if it's inconvenient news):
it expires after a certain date and becomes transformed into sour
"Internet rumors".

In
1998, a US
Prosecutor took time off from his plush Fed gig to play defense
attorney
in Newark (Bergen County),
for Dr. Magdy El Amir (or el-Amir)who had been granted
a contract
worth $6-million-per-month
for his HMO to serve NJ Medicaid.

"...
how did el-Amir, who only the month before had been granted a state
license to operate an HMO, finagle a lucrative contract from the state
of New Jersey in 1995? “Why was this doctor allowed to start a
health plan?” asked the October 25, 1999 issue of the medical trade
journal Medical
Economics.

“How could this medical entrepreneur, who had no experience running a
managed-care or health insurance company, receive a license for an HMO
that now provides care to 44,000 of New Jersey's most vulnerable
citizens?" asked The Bergen Record. “Moreover, how could the
state pay such a novice $ 6 million a month in taxpayers money to take
on such a responsibility?”

Why
was the $66
million
State contract outsourced to him?
(To use as a slush fund?)

El
Amir failed to pay
off
strugging hospitals and clinics with the Medicaid money the State
handed over to him. Some 4 to
15 million dollars went missing. More, depending on accounting.

Dr. El Amir "caused
more than $5.7
million to be paid by wire transfers to unknown parties," via offshore
banks. His HMO was a vehicle to
launder money ... to someone.

Elamir’s HMO
was known to be affiliated
with Bin Laden since
the mid-1990s, and his contacts
included other Al-Qaida
terrorists. (... and obviously
his other contacts included top US
officials from the DoJ.)

Last year,
Elamir
decided to take his managed-care company into two new arenas,
Washington, D.C., and Michigan. The state complaint accuses American Preferred Provider of
making improper loans to these
sister companies, using $4.4 million
from funds intended for the care of New Jersey Medicaid clients. (The State required his business to hold
cash reserves in proportion to his business, so he mortgaged his own
property at inflated rates, far above actual value. See subprime
crisis.)

In addition, the state says American Preferred Provider
improperly diverted $ 4.2 million to other companies that Elamir owns,
and made $800,000 in questionable payments directly to Elamir and
$360,000 to his brother for"medical consultations."Though Elamir faces no criminal charges, he
hired Michael
Chertoff, the former U.S. attorney in New Jersey, as his
attorney last month.A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered state Insurance
Commissioner Jaynee LaVecchia to take control of American Preferred
Provider Plan Inc., a health-maintenance organization for Medicaid
patients allegedly bled
dry by its Saddle River owner, neurologist Magdy Elamir.

The state alleges that American
Preferred
Provider illegally "loaned" more than
$4
million to two start-up HMOs in
Michigan and Washington, D.C., also
owned by Elamir, and that APPP
paid
Elamir and various other businesses he owned more than $5 million out
of Medicaid funds.

APPP was taken over by the Department of Banking and Insurance this
month after the state revealed that the HMO, which primarily serves
Medicaid recipients, was $25
million in the red. APPP has 44,000 members statewide, ...

Chertoff presented a thick document from Elamir's accountant, Mohammed
Hanafy, offering explanations for the money transfers from APPP to other Elamir-controlled corporations.

For example, Management Services of
America, which was paid $1,559,000 by APPP, provided
administrative services for the HMO and paid half the salary of APPP's
top executives and the full salary of consultants working for the HMO,
according to the papers submitted by Hanafy.

Hanafy said APPP's payment of $50,000 to the Jersey City Neurological
Center, where Dr. Elamir's private practice is based, was to reimburse
the practice, which paid part of the cost of installing new elevators
at APPP's headquarters at 810 Broad St. in Newark. Elamir owns the
Broad Street building.

And Hanafy maintains that a
$2,097,000 loan Elamir made to his start-up HMO in Washington, D.C.,
was to expand the New Jersey HMO's subscriber base.
Keupper says the state is not satisfied with Hanafy's explanations, ...

An order to show cause filed Tuesday by the state Attorney General's
Office demands that Elamir return $6,115,384.84
the state alleges he took from the American
Preferred
Provider Plan ... The state has accused Elamir, who owns the HMO, of
siphoning off state Medicaid funds for personal use, driving the company
$25 million into debt.

Although the state last year sued American Preferred Provider Plan
Inc., accusing its founder of bleeding the health maintenance
organization of more than $ 9 million, the civil case is stalled in
state court. No officers of the
failed HMO have been criminally prosecuted.

Only a fraction of the more than $45 million owed to hospitals and
doctors has been recovered, and none of it paid to them. Meanwhile,
lawmakers are moving closer to approval of a plan to use state funds and an assessment against the state's remaining
HMOs to pay $100 million in
bills left by APPP and HIP Health Plan of New Jersey, another
failed HMO.

APPP's founder, Saddle River neurologist Magdy Elamir, continues to
practice medicine in a Jersey City storefront office and lives in a $1.8 million mansion in one of Bergen
County's toniest suburbs, court records show. His car leases alone total $65,000 per year,
the records show.

Public records in the civil case contain no reference to a criminal
investigation, but court officials said some documents in the case were under seal.
The state Attorney General's Office would neither confirm nor deny an investigation.
The state's Medicaid fraud division is not involved in the case, a
Medicaid spokesman said.

The state Medicaid program was paying APPP $ 6.6 million monthly when
it folded, money intended for the care of 44,000 of the state's poorest
citizens. Elamir's property and bank accounts are worth more than
$ 8.8 million, according to his financial statement, but mortgages and
other liens reduce his net worth to $760,000. Creditors can
expect to get about 20 cents on the
dollar, ...

outcome:
February 22,
2000HEADLINE: FOUNDER OF FAILED HMO
IN NO PAIN;HOSPITALS,DOCTORS
SUFFERING, THOUGH

A year after a Medicaid HMO
accused of misusing state and federal funds was
dissolved by the
state, its founder is still enjoying a
millionaire's income
while the
hospitals and doctors who allegedly were defrauded delay
programs for
the poor and fight for restitution. Only
a fraction
of the more than $45
million owed
to hospitals and doctors has been recovered, and
none of it paid to them. ... lawmakers are moving closer to
approval of a plan to use state funds
and an assessment against the state's remaining HMOs to pay $100 million in bills ... The
Egyptian immigrant also operates a chain
of MRI facilities in Newark, Irvington, and Paterson, a limousine
company, and a medical management company.

"He's still in
good spirits,"said Michael Chertoff,
the former U.S. attorney in
Newark whom Elamir
hired as his defense lawyer.

Mohamed Atta(allegedly the
lead
hijacker) his full name
is Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta.
That’s what was on his passport and if you look carefully on his U.S.
visa issued in May of 2000. The name he went by before that – the name
he
used for example on email (to US
defense contractors) – is Mohamed
el-Amir. Atta didn’t go by “Mohamed Atta” until the late
spring
of 2000, after Able Danger supposedly ID’d him. Is Dr. Magdy his
uncle?
Mohammed Atta Senior was said to have visited New Jersey.

Video showing Mohammed
Atta Elamir on visa from pageAtta's full name is Mohamed
Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta. That's what was on his
passport and if you look carefully on his U.S. visa
issued in May of 2000. The name he went by before that--the name
he used for example on email--is
Mohamed el-Amir. Atta didn't go by "Mohamed Atta" until the late
spring of 2000, after Able Danger supposedly ID'd him.scanned
copies of Elamir/Atta docs atta2.gifatta3.gifatta4.gifatta5.gifatta6.gif borrowed from
ericumansky.com

Chertoff
had been a prosecutor in
Whitewater working with Ken
Starr,
a
"Rolls-Royce" attorney, not "legal aid", then later a Federal
Judge, then Asst Atty
General supervising the Sept
11. investigation, NOW Director of
Homeland
Security.

DETAILS from MSNBC
Dateline, related to Elamir,
others

RANDY
GLASS AND OPERATION DIAMONDBACKMr.
MOHSEN:
(From tape) You know these (word censored by station) people,
they are terrorists. And what else do the terrorists want? 'Special
technology,' he says, 'for the deadliest of weapons.' Can Randy Glass
be for real? And is he telling the truth?' This man says he is. He's
Dick Stoltz, a decorated agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms. He was asked to play the role of one of Randy Glass' arms
suppliers. And he confirmed that Randy Glass is for real.Mr. GLASS: Abbas was represented to me
as being an ISI agent.

ISI,
that's the official intelligence agency, like the CIA, of Pakistan.
And
this is where the stakes really get high, because if Abbas was telling
the truth, Randy Glass and the Feds were about to cut an illegal
weapons deal with a Pakistani intelligence operative linked to
terrorists. Even though the official Pakistani government and its
president, Pervez Musharraf, are US allies, there are splinter groups
in the Pakistani Intelligence Agency that are sympathetic to bin Laden
and his cause.

Some other ISI agents came to Florida
on several occasions to negotiate, but they escaped being arrested.
They wanted to pay partially in heroin. One mentioned that the WTC
would be destroyed. These ISI agents said some of their purchases
would go to the Taliban in Afghanistan and/or militants associated with
bin Laden. [Washington Post, 8/2/2002;
Also arrested are Kevin Ingram
and Walter Kapij. Ingram pleads guilty to laundering $350,000 and he is
sentenced to 18 months in prison. [Associated Press, 12/1/2001] Ingram was a former senior
investment banker with Deutsche Bank, but resigned in
January 1999 after his division suffered costly losses.

Stoltz
had to realize that the people being talked about as customers for
these weapons were the most wanted terrorists in the world.
“That’s correct,” says Stoltz.
Bin Laden? “Correct,” says Stoltz.
Did Stoltz think they were serious? “Oh absolutely,” he says.

Mr. GLASS: Abbas told me that Americans
were the enemy. And he looked around the restaurant and he said, 'We would have no problem with blowing up
this entire restaurant.'HANSEN:
(Voiceover) In June of last year, the Feds moved in and arrested Randy
Glass's original contact, Diaa Mohsen, and Mohamed "Mike" Malik. That
was three months before 9/11. After 9/11, both men pled guilty to
violating arms laws. But remarkably, even though they were apparently
willing to supply America's enemies with sophisticated weapons, even
nuclear weapons technology, Mohsen
was sentenced to just 30 months in prison. And Malik?
Mysteriously, his sentence remains
under seal. And he appears to
be a free man, as we saw recently when we visited him at his New
Jersey convenience store. HANSEN: (Voiceover) And Stoltz
says he's surprised that all the
evidence and intelligence the case generated wasn't pursued more
aggressively at the highest levels of law enforcement in Washington.

HANSEN: (Voiceover) We've heard people on tape trying to supply terror
groups with sophisticated weapons
caught in a government sting
operation last year. But only one of them is in jail. Since then, the
government has definitely stepped up its investigations of people who
may be willing to do business with terrorists. But have some of them
ducked the government's radar? Who else might be out there?
Last fall,
DATELINE obtained information about this man, Magdy
el Amir. He's a
prominent doctor, a neurologist with a practice in Jersey City. Born
and educated in Egypt, he moved to this country about 20 years ago and
since then has built a fortune. He lives in this mansion, is generous
to local charities and is an active supporter of both political
parties. Should counterterrorism investigators take an interest in Dr.
el Amir? Well, take a look at this document obtained by DATELINE last
fall. A foreign intelligence report that makes a startling allegation
about the doctor, that he has had financial
ties with Osama bin Laden
for years. The report was given to a senior
member of Congress, Ben
Gilman, back in 1998 when he was chairman of the House
International
Relations Committee.

HANSEN: (Voiceover) The report alleges that an HMO owned by Dr. el Amir
in New Jersey was "funded by Ben
Laden," and that in turn Dr. el Amir was skimming money from the HMO to fund
"terrorist activities."
HANSEN: And as we both know sometimes, raw intelligence isn't always
accurate.
Rep. GILMAN: Yes.
Rep. GILMAN: Of course. That's always possible. But in like manner,
it's important that you pursue it. And make certain that, is there any
veracity to it? Is there any substance to it? Is it a credible report
or isn't it?
HANSEN: Has the FBI answered those questions? Not to Congressman
Gilman's satisfaction. But what DATELINE found intriguing is that less
than a year after the congressman says the FBI received the report, Dr.
el Amir's HMO was taken over by the state of New Jersey, which opened a
fraud investigation. Why? Because, according to sources close to the
investigation, more than $15 million is unaccounted for. Where did the
money go? DATELINE has reviewed documents that show at least some of it
went into hard-to-trace offshore bank accounts.
(Voiceover) Does that mean any of the missing money went, as the
intelligence report suggests, to fund terrorist activities? We don't
know. Dr. EL AMIR: (From video) That's
preposterous. Never.
HANSEN: (Voiceover) DATELINE has found another reason why federal
investigators might want to pay close attention to Dr. el Amir and his
family. It's something we learned when we interviewed Randy Glass, the
con man-turned-undercover operative who helped the government break up
an illegal weapons ring allegedly tied to terrorist groups. It turns
out that one of the people recorded
trying to arrange an arms deal with
Randy Glass was Dr. el Amir's own brother, Mohamed, an engineer,
also a
US citizen now living in Egypt.
Mr. GLASS: (From tape) So they just want to do, basically, small arms
and ammunition, right?
Mr. EL AMIR (brother): (From tape) Yes.
HANSEN: (Voiceover) Glass says federal
agents told him to drop the matter.
HANSEN: So what happened to the case?
Mr. GLASS: Nothing.
HANSEN: There was no follow-up.
Mr. GLASS: No.
HANSEN: (Voiceover) And Randy Glass doesn't know the half of it,
because that same intelligence report
that talks about Dr. el Amir also names his brother Mohamed as having
ties to Osama bin Laden. A group of illegal arms merchants,
including an ISI agent with foreknowledge of 9/11, had met in a New
York restaurant

WHY
did Michael
Chertoff at the DOJ help FBI sabotage Green Quest?Chertoff
was
running Operation
Green Quest ---
dedicated to
tracking down terrorist
financing
---
while
simultaneously (a month or so overlap) defending a client on
charges of financing terrorists. Coincidence? We won't
know. SanderHicks
(audio parts 1
and 2)
found that no
newspaper would
touch the Chertoff storyon
home page,
even an
alt-weekly like Village Voice.

Well, maybe
not NO newspaper... a
student paper in Texas picked up the original Dateline story
and tied Chertoff to it...

Foreign
intelligence reports given to then chairman
of the House
International Relations Committee Ben Gilman, R-New York, in 1998 accused Magdy Elamir of having “had
financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years,” according to an
Aug. 2, 2002 Dateline NBC broadcast.
Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael
Chertoff’s ties to the financiers of the Sept. 11 attacks may
prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security Chief.According
to a June 20, 2000 article in the The Record of Bergen
County, New Jersey, Chertoff
defended
accused terrorist financier Dr.
Magdy Elamir.

Here
is a letter
to FBI/Customs re: Greenquest and a company called Ptech
which handles
our highest
level security installations incl. DOE (nuclear), NATO, etc. owned
by a
Saudi named Qassin al-Kadi, who possibly tied to Al-Qaeda financing (as
our leaders are).
No answers.

Salem was
forever
"brashly talking about violent actions and trying to incite people to
do ‘crazy things.’ "These "things" were proposed after prior discussion
with high-level intelligence authorities in the United States. LA Times article cited the role of a
"decorated former Egyptian military
officer" for the emergence of "a clandestine cell of terrorists
who conspired to set off the World Trade Center bomb blast, plotted an
unparalleled wave of attacks on U.S. landmarks and political figures
and shattered America’s image of invulnerability to terrorism.

Granted, I think some of
the membership at Free Republic has changed, because despite what they
said below, clearly implicating the US govt in
domestic terrorism, after Sept 11 and the exact same scenario for which
they blamed Clinton (or the FBI), now they think Bush is God.
Now if you say the USG carried out Sept 11, they'd throw the "tin-foil
hat" slur at you, but during the Clinton era, THEY posted this stuff.from Hannity's
forum: Before the bombing, he offered to do a switcheroo on
the bombers, substituting a harmless
powder
for the deadly explosives and thereby
preventing any potential catastrophe. The FBI spurned his offer. The
New York Times October 28, 1993, article with this revelation was
headlined, “Tapes Depict Proposal to
Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center
Blast.”Salem
complained to one FBI agent that an FBI supervisor
“requested to make me to testify [in public] and if he didn’t push for
that, we’ll be going building the
bomb with a phony powder and grabbing
the people who was involved in it. But
… we didn’t do that.”From
reading the article at length, it seems clear that an unnamed FBI supervisor of John
Anticev and Nancy Floyd is the person who thwarted efforts to use a phony
powder instead of live explosives, and allowed
the bombing to go forward.

ORIGINAL
NEWS ARTICLES on FREE REPUBLIC:
In one of the first
numbered tapes, Mr. Salem is quoted as telling agent Floyd: "Since
the bomb went off I feel terrible. I feel bad. I feel here is people
who don't listen." Mr. Salem recounts a
conversation he said he had with Mr. Anticev, saying, "I said, 'Guys, now you saw this bomb went off and
you both know that we could avoid that.' " At another point, Mr.
Salem says, "You get paid, guys, to
prevent problems like this from happening.""Do
you deny," Mr. Salem says he told the other agent, "your supervisor
is
the main reason of bombing the World Trade Center?" Mr. Salem said Mr.
Anticev
did not deny it. "We was handling the case perfectly well until the
supervisor
came and messed it up, upside down." The transcripts reflect an effort to keep Mr. Salem as an
intelligence asset
who would not have to go public or testify."You were informed. Everything is
ready. The day and the time. Boom. Lock them up and that's that. That's
why I
feel so bad." By creating the so-called bootleg
tapes, Mr. Salem has given ammunition to
defense lawyers who argue that he entrapped the 15 defendants charged
with
conspiring to bomb New York City landmarks.

freepers
say: more terrorism = more power for the FBI. It's a
simple equation.
more terrorism = more power for the FBI = diminishing Bill of Rights
and Rule of Law

The FBI
benefited greatly from the World Trade
Center bombing. In particular, the bombing resulted in the proposal of
the 1995 Counterterrorism Bill greatly expanding
federal authorities'
budgets and powers.

Attorney
Lynne
Stewart has been convicted
by Patrick Fitzgerald under the PATRIOT ACT, and is facing 30+ years in
prison, for providing
rigorous defense for her client in this matter of the FBI-sponsored 1993 WTC attack.Lynne is a political
prisoner, of the type we associate with (US-backed) Third
World
dictatorships.

additional pageCOUNTER-TERRORISM
- WORKING W/ TERRORISTS
SANDER
HICKS:
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s creepy that the FBI guy who
admitted the FBI knew all about planes
being flown into buildings well before 9/11, Michael
Anticev, has the
same last name as
the FBI
agent
John Anticev,
who handled Emad Salem, the informant
who said that the FBI “built the bomb” for the 1993 WTC
bombing? Michael and John Anticev….are they brothers? Or what? What’s
the link?

Paul
DeRienzo published
the audio recording
on his website, pdr.autono.net.
As Salem is pressing for money while emphasizing his value
as a Bureau asset, the
conversation moves in and out of
references to
the bombing and the FBI’s knowledge of the bomb making.”

Here’s
a key excerpt:ANTICEV, FBI: You got paid regularly for good information. I
mean the expenses were a little bit out of the ordinary and it was
really questioned. Don’t tell Nancy I told you this.
SALEM: Well, I have to tell her, of course.
FBI: Well then, if you have to, you have to.
SALEM: Yeah, I mean because the lady was being honest, and I was being
honest, and everything was submitted with receipts, and now it’s
questionable.
FBI: It’s not questionable, it’s like a little out of the ordinary.
SALEM: OK. I don’t think it was. If that what you think guys, fine, but
I don’t think that because we was start already building the bomb which
is went off in the World Trade Center. It
was built by supervising
supervision from the Bureau and the DA, and we was all informed
about
it and we know what the bomb start to be built. By who? By your
confidential informant. What a wonderful great case! And then he
put
his head in the sand I said, “Oh, no, no, that’s not true, he is son of
a bitch.” (Deep breath) OK. It’s built with a different way in another
place and that’s it.
FBI: No, don’t make any rash decisions. I’m just trying to be as honest
with you as I can.
SALEM: Of course, I appreciate that.

If you stick
with it and listen to the entire audio file on DeRienzo’s site, there’s
a dramatic moment at the end, when John Anticev seems to show his
hand. Anticev
was OK with what happened, he reassured Salem (and himself?)
that:

“We’re doing this for a higher reason.
We know what we’re doing and we
know what it’s gonna mean in the future. Forget about
bureaucrats!
Forget about them. They come and go, OK? We know what we’re doing, and
at the end we’re gonna at least be able to look at each other and say
we tried the best we could, ya know? Not for the government. The
‘government’ is this very, you know, what do you call, unidentifiable
thing, you know? It’s a, sometimes it’s one person affecting you,
sometimes it’s bureaucratic things, but we’ll still know what we did.
That’s all we’re gonna say.”

Two
cassette tape recordings, obtained by SHADOW reporter Paul DeRienzo
of telephone conversations between FBI informant Emad Salem and his
Bureau contacts reveal
secret U.S. Government complicity in the
February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City in
which six people were killed and more than a thousand were injured.
After careful deliberation, the SHADOW believes the question
regarding the bombing boils down to the following:Did
the FBI do the
bombing, utilizing informant Salem as an "agent provocateur" or did it
fail to prevent an independent Salem and his associates from doing it?
The taped conversations obtained by the SHADOW seem to indicate the
former:

SALEM:
OK. I don’t think it was. If that what you think guys, fine, but
I don’t think that because we
was start
already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center.
It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA, and
we was all informed about it and we know what the bomb start to be
built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great
case! And
then he put his head in the sand I said, “Oh, no, no,
that’s not true, he is son of a bitch.” (Deep breath) OK. It’s built
with a different way in another place and that’s it.

(If
you stick with it and listen to the entire audio file on DeRienzo’s
site, there’s a dramatic moment at the end, when John Anticev seems to
show his hand. Wondering why Anticev didn’t contradict Salem when Salem
accused the FBI of “building the bomb” with the “supervision of the
Bureau”?)

Anticev
was OK with what happened, he reassured Salem (and himself?)
that:“We’re
doing this for a higher
reason.
We know what we’re doing and we
know what it’s gonna mean in
the future.
Forget about
bureaucrats! Forget about them. They come and
go, OK? We know what we’re doing, and at the end we’re gonna at
least
be able to look at each other and say we tried the best we could, ya
know? Not for the government. The ‘government’ is this very, you
know,
what do you call, unidentifiable thing, you know? It’s a,
sometimes
it’s one person affecting you, sometimes it’s bureaucratic things,but
we’ll still know what we did. That’s all we’re
gonna say.”

According
to attorney Ron Kuby, after Salem was taken into the Witness Protection
program on June 24, 1993, he told the feds about the more than 1,000
conversations he had recorded sometime between December, 1991 and June,
1993. Kuby says that while some of these tapes are not significant,
others contain substantive dealings with Salem and his FBI handlers. Salem was actually bugging the FBI.

The World Trade Center bombing, along with subsequent alleged plots to
bomb prominent targets in New York City, spawned a number of federal
indictments and trials resulting in the conviction of more than a dozen
men, all of Arabic descent. Salem's exposure as a government informant
who had a year earlier infiltrated the group of men later charged in
the bombing conspiracy caused many to
wonder why he and the FBI failed to provide any warning of the pending
World Trade Center bombing.

The answer now appears self-evident. According to William Kuntsler,
attorney for Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, one of those accused in the larger
bombing case, the
entire conspiracy was the product of Salem, the government informant.
Kuntsler's law partner Ronald Kuby told the SHADOW that within hours of
the World Trade Center blast, Salem
checked into a midtown hospital, complaining of a loud ringing in his
ears.

There is a growing belief that some of the four men charged and since
convicted and jailed for the World Trade Center bombing, Mohammed
Aboulihma, Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad and Ahmad Ajaj may be innocent [victims] of a government frame-up.

Attorneys for those convicted have maintained that the government's
case is circumstantial at best, with no evidence or motive linking the
accused with the bombing. The FBI and federal prosecutors have not as yet responded to questions
over the lack of warning of the attack on the Twin Towers, despite the
strategic placement of their informant.

Two
possible scenarios emerge.
One: Salem is a rogue FBI informant who created the conspiracy to bomb
the World Trade Center for the money his information about the plot
(minus his role) would bring. An attorney for one of the convicted men
told the SHADOW that Salem was an FBI informant from November of 1991
to the summer of 1992. The attorney says that the FBI became aware of
the World Trade Center bombing plot through informant Salem during this
period, but they refused to believe
his information or pay Salem's exhorbitant fees. In fact, the
feds claimed that they dropped Salem as an informant during the summer
of 1992 after he refused or failed a lie detector test. This left Salem with a bombing plot but no
one to sell it to.

According to the attorney, Salem let
the plot that he hatched go forward and the World Trade Center was
bombed so that he could get money and publicity. The attorney
says that within 48 hours of the bombing, the FBI requested Salem to
help them solve the case. Salem quickly pointed the fingers at the
defendants, all followers of Sheik Rahman.

So, who did it? From the above point of view, Salem constructed the
bomb plot with those whom he subsequently set up. The U.S. government and its FBI were innocent
bystanders who failed to
prevent the carnage due to their unwillingness to take Salem's
claims seriously, despite his close
collaboration with Bureau agents for the better part of a year.

The
other scenario looks like this:
Informant Salem organized the bomb plot with the "supervision" of the FBI and the District Attorney as
part of a classic entrapment setup.
He befriended certain individuals, possibly some of the defendants,
convinced them that his intentions to bomb the World Trade Center were
sincere, and convinced them to get
involved. The bomb goes off. Greedy Salem, with his ears still
ringing, sells out his accomplices while attempting to sell more
information to the Bureau. In order to protect him and their
relationship, the FBI sequesters Salem and utilizes him against the
real target of the FBI, Sheik Rahman.

In one of the taped conversations between Salem and "Special Agent"
John Anticev, Salem refers to him and the Bureau's involvement in
making the bomb that blew up the World Trade Center. As Salem is pressing for
money while emphasizing his value as a Bureau asset, the
conversation moves in and out of references to the bombing and the
FBI's knowledge of the bomb making:

FBI: But ah basically
nothing has changed. I'm just telling you for my own sake that nothing,
that this isn't a salary but you got paid regularly for good
information. I mean the expenses were a little bit out of the ordinary
and it was really questioned. Don't tell Nancy I told you this. (Nancy Floyd is
another FBI agent who worked with Salem in his informant capacity. The
second tape obtained by the SHADOW is of a telephone conversation
between Salem and Floyd -Ed.) SALEM: Well, I have
to tell her of course. FBI: Well then, if
you have to, you have to. SALEM: Yeah, I mean
because the lady was being honest and I was being honest and everything was submitted with receipts
and now it's questionable. FBI: It's not
questionable, it's like a little out of the' ordinary. SALEM: Okay. I don't
think it was. If that
what you think guys, fine, but I don't think that because we was start
already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center.
It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA and
we was all informed about it and we know what the bomb start to be
built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great
case! And then he put his head in the sand I said "Oh, no,
no, that's not true, he is son of a bitch." (Deep breath) Okay. It's
built with a different way in another place and that's it. FBI: No, don't make any rash decisions.
I'm just trying to be as honest with you as I can. SALEM: Of course, I
appreciate that.

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Making things even worse for the
FBI's image are the revelations of former crime lab analyst Frederic Whitehurst.
In an AP story carried nationwide and on an ABC "Primetime Live"
segment, Whitehurst made the following startling revelations:

1) He was
pressured to distort findings about the World Trade Center bombing
to favor prosecutors.
2) In a Georgia bombing case investigated by current FBI Director
Freeh, two agents slanted evidence by
testifying about tests that weren't done and scientific
conclusions they could not support. One of the agents, Roger Martz,
testified in the Simpson case.
3) During one investigation, he was
physically threatened by FBI bomb squad members to make false
claims about evidence.
4) On one occasion, an FBI crime lab
expert illegally adjusted a forensic testing device in order to alter
the results the machine produced.

In a turn that will be familiar to all JFK researchers, when Whitehurst
complained about these practices, nothing was done about his memos.
Indeed the FBI's only reaction has been to declare Dr. Whitehurst's
charges false and then demote him. At the end of the ABC segment, when
reporter Brian
Ross asked Whitehurst outside his home why he had gone public with the
charges, Whitehurst, choking back tears, said that the proudest day of
his life was when he became an FBI agent. On that day, he took an oath
to uphold the Constitution. That oath did not include a clause to
remain silent when other FBI agents broke the law. This
genuinely moving moment will remind many readers of the transformation
described by Kennedy researcher Bill Turner in his pioneering book
Hoover's FBI.

In the face of all this, FBI Director
Louis Freeh - while acknowledging the accusations as very
serious - rejected
suggestions for an outside panel review of the FBI. Even though
opinion polls show that, in the face of these violent controversies,
favorable opinions of the FBI have declined and negative perceptions
have risen. To our knowledge, Freeh has taken no public position on the
ARRB dispute with the FBI files. In a Los Angeles Times interview, the
Director stated that 1) he regarded any matter that affected the FBI's
credibility as serious, 2) that it was essential to acknowledge past
mistakes, and 3) that firm action should be taken to correct
wrongdoing. If Louis Freeh is serious, a good place to begin on all
three is for him to take a public stand for openness on the Kennedy
files.

"Tucked away on page A5 of the Washington Times for Wednesday, December
15 is a tiny article about tape transcripts of a conversation between
the FBI informant, Emad Salem, and his controller, FBI agent John
Anticev. As you may already know, Salem is a former Egyptian army
officer hired by the FBI to infiltrate (or organize?) a terrorist group
here in the U.S. In April, two months after the bombing, when the taped
conversation took place, Anticev asked Selem to justify his expenses.
Salem defended his expense report by saying that his usual expenditures
were pushed up by the costs of building the trade center bomb. He
acknowleged procuring the materials (at government expense) and
personally building the bomb."

March 8, 1995, San Francisco Chronicle article, "New York Terror Trial
Witness Tells What a Liar He Was," and post by Terry Atwood.

(Miami)
Terror crew urged to hit FBI's bldgs.Thursday,
July 6th, 2006An FBI
informant urged seven terror suspects to target FBI offices throughout
the country "The FBI knew exactly
what was going on and was in complete control."

The FBI
benefited greatly from the World Trade
Center bombing. In particular, the bombing resulted in the proposal of
the 1995 Counterterrorism Bill greatly expanding federal authorities'
budgets and powers.

According to
tapes played at the trial, the FBI and US Attorneys clearly were shown
to have intentionally
used Salem as a provocateur.
Testimony by two of Salem’s FBI agent handlers, Mr. Anticev, and Mrs.
Nancy Floyd, confirmed that their FBI supervisors
intentionally refused the
agents and Salem’s pleas to render the WTC bomb
harmless.

...
evidence implicates Chertoff in intentionally
helping create and provoke these terrorist acts and terror funding in order to provide
a pretext for much of the
controversial police state
provisions in laws which Chertoff has helped write into the USA
PATRIOT
Act.

The
same cast of characters known by Chertoff and the FBI, including FBI
informants, Special Forces, and CIA recruits, were also involved in the
Oklahoma City Bombing and the 1998 Tanzanian
and Kenyan embassy
bombings. I think the USS Cole too. More on 1993 by Schoenman, on home pages.

US PROVOCATEUR
FOR AL-QAEDA FREED FOR NEW TERROR MISSION?so
he WAS sentenced!!
Thanks to the GW Bush DOJ, AG Gonzales and John Richter, Ali Mohammed and Melvin Lattimore
were not fully prosecuted, did not serve the full time required for
their crimes and now are free once again...Patrick Briley
October 7, 2005 The
GW Bush DOJ arranged for the early release of convicted FBI and CIA
provocateur Ali Mohammed in July 2005. When released Ali had not served
a full sentence commensurate with his convictions for the 1993 WTC and
Kenyan and Tanzanian bombing attacks during the Clinton Presidency. AG Gonzales and John C. Richter were
instrumental in the release of Ali Mohammed. John C. Richter was a former
assistant attorney general for the GW Bush DOJ criminal division who
had served in the DOJ criminal division with current Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff.

John Richter was also instrumental in protecting Melvin Lattimore, another FBI
provocateur involved with Ali Mohammed in the 1993 WTC and 1995 OKC bombings.
Richter was brought to OKC in October 2001 by the DOJ to prosecute
Lattimore for a firearms violation. But at the time of Lattimore’s
conviction the FBI and DOJ as well as Richter and AG Ashcroft knew that
Lattimore had been used as an FBI provocateur together with Ali
Mohammed in the 1993 WTC and the 1995 OKC bombing. They also knew that
Lattimore was the roommate of 9/11 hijackers Moussaoui, AlShehhi and
AlHazmi and had been with Mohammed Atta in Norman OK just before the
9/11 attacks. Richter’s 2001 prosecution of Lattimore was done to get
Lattimore out of the limelight to avoid press and public scrutiny of
FBI, CIA and DOJ corruption, murder and treason involving these attacks
with Ali Mohammed and Melvin Lattimore.

Ali Mohammed worked for the FBI,
CIA and Army Special Forces and with Bin Laden and 9/11 mastermind
Khalid Mohammed, all at the same time! After Ali’s conviction
during Clinton’s Presidency, DOJ AG Janet Reno made a special deal with
Ali Mohammed and only held him under house arrest and never with the
prospect of Ali having to serve out his full sentence. Ali Mohammed has
always enjoyed a protected status with the DOJ, first with Reno and now
with Ashcroft, Gonzales, Chertoff, and Richter. Because of this DOJ
protection and his roles with so many different government agencies it
is highly likely that Ali Mohammed was and still is a tool of the
National Security Council (NSC) under Clinton and perhaps even under GW
Bush and HW Bush.The 9/11
Commission staff director Philip Zelikov and current NSC director,
Steven Hadley, both former NSC deputies for Condi Rice, intentionally
lied about and hid the facts of what the Clinton and GW Bush NSC and
Pentagon knew about the roles of Atta, Lattimore and Ali Mohammed. MORE:
www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick18.htm

Chertoff
and Fitzgerald(audiodiscussion
on 051129) were
most likely part of the NY Prosecutors team which created the
name
"Al-Qaida" meaning "the base" (needed
for a RICO
charge),
named after a DataBase of jihadists on the CIA's .. oops, I mean
Osama's ..
computer. shocking discussion by Ralph
Schoenman on WTC 93(video)and Lynne
Stewart's case

Attorney
Lynne
Stewart has been convicted
by Patrick Fitzgerald under the PATRIOT ACT, and is facing 30+ years in
prison, for providing
rigorous defense for her client in this matter of the FBI-sponsored 1993 WTC attack.Lynne is a political
prisoner, of the type we associate with (US-backed) Third
World
dictatorships, where attorneys, journalists, union leaders, community
activists, and whistleblowers get sent to dungeons... or assassinated.

How
can Lynne be in trouble for defending her "terrorist" client -- who nevercarried out any terrorism
himself
-- upon
testimony of
FBI -- when FBI DID
in fact promote/fund terrorism
and KILL people?!

Lynne is "guilty" of calling Reuters
News, on behalf of her
client. Reuters published a controversial statement from her
client which could
have
potentially maybe caused something bad to happen in Egypt
... but
didn't.
Press statements are a
routine duty of lawyers in high-profile cases ... except in Lynne's
case.
Lynne Stewart was caught in a trap set by John Asscroft, to persecute
lawyers who rigorously defend people the government wants to destroy,
or who threaten to expose the government. For example, Ashcroft
arbitrarily "eliminated" client-attorney privilege, embodied in the Bill
of Rights, Amendment Five and Six.

Clinton
almost got
to pass his "anti-terrorism" and "eliminate habeus corpus" bill back in
'93.

If
only more people had died ...

The 1996
Anti-Terrorism
Act
S. 390 was introduced February 10, 1995 by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware,
and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania. H.R. 896 was introduced the
same day in the House by Rep. Charles Schumer, D-New York, and Rep.
Dicks.The bill passed the
Senate in June
1995, but was held up in the House by intense lobbying by what was
called "an unusual coalition" of gun rights groups and civil liberties
organizations. Such coalitions are unusual in the traditional
right-left frame of mind, but not in the libertarian movement.

The bill finally passed
the House in March 1996, and was signed into law in April 1996.

The Center for National Security Studies issued an excellent analysis
of the bill, along with information on the FBI and trends.

The National Coalition Against
Repressive Legislation summarized the
bill in 1995 and the law as finally passed in 1996. NCARL and others
raised important criticisms:

Presumed guilty, secret
evidence can be used

Permanent resident aliens arrested under this law have to prove they
should not be held in jail before trial. Secret evidence can used in
the detention hearings and at trial that only the judge could see, not
the defendant.

First Amendment
protections weakened.

The law lifts a 1994 Crime law restriction prohibiting the FBI from
investigations based on speech or beliefs, when restricting
humanitarian aid. Foreigners can be barred from speaking in the U.S.
using McCarthy era McCarran-Walter Act provisions. An overbroad
definition of terrorism virtually
requires the Justice Department to
select crimes to prosecute based on political beliefs and associations.

Presidential powers
expanded.

The President can label organizations -- without any appeal or review
-- as "terrorist", and criminalize fundraising for humanitarian aid
even remotely related to such groups.

Punishment for lawful
actions.

Permanent resident aliens can be deported or indefinitely jailed for
their affiliations or political activity, with no judicial review.

Constitutional protections
eroded.

The law further restricts the Bill of Rights' habeas corpus protections
for state prisoners. Although this is a terrorism law, and death-row
inmates were used to justify this provision, this affects all state
prisoners, and no one convicted of federal terrorism laws. Prisoners
are required to prove the state acted "unreasonably," a tough legal
standard that isn't met simply by having credible evidence of innocence
or wrongful imprisonment. Prisoners will be limited to one federal
appeal within a short time of exhausting state appeals. Federal courts
are required to render decisions within six months, and can't overrule
state courts' interpretations of constitutional law.

More spending
(meaning higher taxes and debt), and more
police abuses.

The law authorizes $1 billion in new federal spending over five years.
The amount includes an additional $100 million for one of the most
terroristic organizations in the United States, the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms.

Further restrictions on
financial privacy.

The law requires banks to identify any domestic "agents" (undefined) of
groups labeled as terrorist, and freeze their funds with no right of
appeal.

The original bill contained a provision, supported by the Clinton
administration, lifting the historical "Posse Comitatus" restriction on
the U.S. military working with domestic police. The provision did not
make it into the final version. (That would come years later.)

The law creates an oversight commission for federal police agencies.
Even though the commission has no subpoena power and can only make
recommendations, then-FBI Director Louis Freeh lobbied against the bill
based on this one provision.

The Critics

On April 24, 1995, the American Civil Liberties Union issued a press
release quoting their Executive Director Ira Glasser,

In past times of tragedy and fear, the government has harassed,
investigated and arrested innocent people solely because of their race,
religion, national origin, speech or political beliefs. In the 1920
Palmer raids, thousands were improperly arrested and jailed in 33
cities as a response to a frightening wave of bombings. People were
summarily deported based on their national origin and their political
association. During World War II, the federal government committed what
is now universally seen as an act of racism and war hysteria when it
incarcerated Japanese-American citizens. In the 1950s, legitimate fears
of Soviet threats were used to convert dissent into disloyalty. People
were spied upon and punished on the basis of political beliefs and
associations instead of criminal evidence. In the turbulent 1960s, the
government again engaged in widespread infiltration and surveillance of
organizations opposed to the Vietnam war and those trying to win
equality for African-Americans. Again, normal standards of criminal
evidence were abandoned; instead, race and political beliefs became a
cause for suspicion.

We must now try to avoid that same mistake. The government should
certainly investigate vigorously based on criminal evidence. But no one
should be targeted because they believe in the Second Amendment, or
belong to far right organizations. No matter how much we may disagree
with some of those organizations, we must not target people associated
with them in the absence of credible evidence of criminal conduct.

Vince Miller, Director of the International Society for Individual
Liberty, said the following in an April 26, 1995, message to LiberNet:

The "Counter-Terrorism Bill" however, concentrates enormous police
powers in a domestic equivalent of the National Security Council, and
gives the President tremendous arbitrary power to declare who is a
domestic or overseas "terrorist" -- a decision which this legislation
says shall not be subject to appeal! The bill authorizes secret trials
for citizens and immigrants who are merely accused of lending support
(including humanitarian aid) to domestic or international "terrorist"
organizations, and these accusations may be made by anonymous
informants.

The bill says that individuals arrested under this act may be declared
ineligible for bail, may be detained indefinitely until trial, and will
be considered guilty until proven innocent -- the direct opposite of
American principles of justice that have protected the freedom of
innocent people for over two hundred years.

If the individual cannot somehow prove his or her innocence, than he
will be summarily deported if a "green-card" resident, or put in jail
for up to 10 years if a citizen -- while still not necessarily having
been proven guilty of any real crime.

It is worth noting that if
the President has arbitrary standards for
declaring individuals or groups "terrorist", standards and targets can
change according to short-term political goals. Syria was a "terrorist
state" until George Bush needed them to help fight Iraq. Iran has been
an alternate ally and enemy, as has Iraq, some Afghan groups, the ANC
and numerous others. How is one to know what aid is legal and what may
be suddenly not?

The Libertarian Party issued a press release April 27, 1995, on the
relationship between the Oklahoma City bombing and the Counterterrorism
Bill, saying:

"Law-enforcement agencies should act swiftly to bring the criminals who
committed this heinous act to justice, and to punish them to the
fullest extent of the law," said Steve Dasbach, Chair of America's
third largest political party. "However, we must not dishonor the men,
women, and children who died in that brutal and senseless act by
linking their tragedy to any effort to undermine fundamental American
liberties.

"The freedoms recognized under the Bill of Rights are our strongest
bulwark against terrorism," asserted Dasbach. "Security measures that
infringe on those freedoms will inevitably lead to abuse, ultimately
making us less secure in our lives and property."

...

Under Clinton's proposal, the FBI would have the power to examine
financial, travel, and telephone records, conduct wiretapping, and
infiltrate "suspect" groups. Clinton said such powers were needed to
protect "our way of life."

"An abiding respect for liberty is our way of life," countered Dasbach.

The Libertarian Party issued another news release on April 18, 1996,
unsuccesfully urging the President to veto the bill:

"You don't honor the
memory of the dead by depriving the living of
their basic freedoms," said the party's National Chair Steve Dasbach.
"And you don't protect Americans from hypothetical foreign terrorists
by giving more power to government agencies with a history of running
roughshod over our civil liberties."

...

"The fact that Clinton and Congress
are trying to link this bill to the
Oklahoma City tragedy is political ghoulishness as its worst,"
said
Dasbach. "It shows that there is no
tragedy that politicians won't try
to capitalize on to further increase the power of government."

Richard Hartman of Spokane, Washington, reported hearing the following
exchange on the radio between a
reporter and Attorney General Janet Reno:

REPORTER: If the FBI
had already
possessed the powers described in President Clinton's anti-terrorism
legislation, would you have been able to prevent the Oklahoma disaster?

RENO: No.

The Supporters

U.S. voters should take note that once again, Republicans and Democrats
united to take away your rights. The Libertarian Party was the only
political party to publicly oppose the passage of the law.

Opposite
situation, the Al-Arian
case. I think Prof.
Al-Arian
did NOT launder money for terrorists, or possibly sent
money to Palestinian groups which had a political AND a military
wing. A military outfit without a country is de facto
"terrorist". He
definitely made some
very angry statements against US support for horrible abuses of
Palestinians. Prosecution admitted they have no
evidence that he
funded anything
or planned any terrorist attacks, but since he is a Palestinian
political activist, he's in the slammer since 2003, on charges of "CONSPIRACY". At
very least, there's something
very fishy here.

Karl Rove's right
wing buddies Grover
Norquist and Jack Abramoffwere
Al-Arian's non-profit
consultants, AND Jeb
Bushgave his
private
school $350,000. My opinion
is that Al-Arian got burned
as a fall guy.
Same for Palestinian Fawaz Damra
of Cleveland, who spoke inflammatory words against Jews in 1994, and sent funds to legit
charities which later
added a military defense arm, and later got
labelled "terrorist".
You are only allowed to defend yourself against Israeli murder squads
IF you are part of a "legitimate govt". But anyone Israel attacks
is NOT "legitimate". It's de facto "terrorist".
If you are just a private
human being, tough shit, shut up and take it.

Norquistis
a super
lobbyist like Abrahoff.
He's Newt Gingrich's bud,
NRA ally, head of American
Taxpayers Union.
Alamoudi hired Norquist to
head up the Islamic Institute. Grover Norquist's
best friend is Karl Rove,
White House chief of staff, so apparently
Norquist was
able to "fix things". Moderate Arab-Americans couldn't speak out
after 9/11, because Norquist
got his extreme right wing
Muslim friends to be "gatekeepers" at the White House.